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the people's welfare. Shak. In whose deep eyes Men read the welfare of the times to come. Emerson.

whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson.

the motion being that employed in using a whip. Whipping their rough surface for a trout. Emerson. To whip in, to drive in, or keep from scattering, as hounds in a hurt; hence, to collect, or to keep together, as member of a party, or the like. -- To whip the cat. (a) To practice extreme parsimony. [Prov. Eng.] Forby.…

traces, or tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See Singletree. [People] cut their own whippletree in the woodlot. Emerson.

penser. They were Night and Day, and Day and Night, Pilgrims wight with steps forthright. Emerson.

dsome; pleasant. Still plotting how their hungry ear That winsome voice again might hear. Emerson.

kles in my brows." Shak. Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. Emerson.

el painting, consisting of a basic lead metantimonate, obtained by fusing together tartar emetic lead nitrate, and common salt. -- Patent yellow (Old Chem.), a yellow pigment consisting essentially of a lead oxychloride; -- called also Turner's yellow.

A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an emerald-green incrustation on chromite; -- called also emerald nickel.